Marty gives more than a poetry reading; she gives insight on her process, deep-felt lessons in self-care and self-risk, and launches a fireball of positive energy into the crowd.

-- Katie Moulton, Indiana University

Marty McConnell is not for the faint of heart: The artist's performance poetry blows through the border checkpoints of faith, freedom, gender, humanity, integrity and sex in ways that are frequently beautiful, sometimes transgressive and, in her most exhilarating work, both at once.